Takin' it to the street: Music, art flow all around

William Parham of Daytona Beach gets inspired to sing "My Girl" at the MainStreet Live Original Music & Art Festival on Main Street in Daytona Beach on Saturday.

News-Journal / Nigel Cook

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Published: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 10:46 p.m.

Last Modified: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 11:45 p.m.

Under sunny skies, Saturday was the day to hit Main Street in Daytona Beach for a plethora of tunes — whether your musical tastebuds yearned for country, urban, folk blues, Southern rock, power pop/punk, alternative, Celtic new age, jazz rock, Christian rock or more. The MainStreet Live Original Music & Art Festival sounded off on 18 stages, indoor and outdoor, along Main Street from Atlantic Avenue to Peninsula Drive. More than 125 musical acts and artists of all backgrounds brought their talents to Main Street during the festival, which began at 2 p.m. Saturday and was scheduled to run past after midnight. Music included the Daytona Beach rock band Stealing Vanity; the Jacksonville "horror rap/spooky rock/shock rock" group Razorz Edge; Ponce Inlet singer-songwriter Matthew Lamb; Orlando folk-rocker Logan Belle; and the Daytona Beach Christian rock band down2neptune.